Picnic With Cake

Animation Series And Interactive Game For Pre-Schoolers

Mr. and Mrs. Dog baked two delicious cakes for a picnic with all their animal friends.

But once they arrive at the picnic spot….The cakes are missing!

Picnic with Cake series and half hour special

Picnic with Cake is an animated series and cross media adaptation of the famous picture book “Picnic with Cake” by Thé Tjong-Khing, published in more than 13 countries. Each of the 13 episodes, as well as the 25 minute special, tells the central storyline of the picnic, the discovery of the stolen cakes, the unmasking of the thieves and the happy ending with cake. Every episode of the story is told from the perspective of another animal. In this way the picnic story takes the shape of a thriller, a slapstick or a romantic comedy, all tailored to the level of understanding of our target group.

Picnic with Cake website

The heart of the website is an interactive story world where children can join the animals enjoying the Picnic with Cake. While watching the story, they can jump between characters and switch perspectives. Children can look through the eyes of the funny rats when they are accused for stealing the cakes and switch halfway to the perspective of the frog to see how he steals the cakes in the mean time. Besides the interactive videoplayer, the website offers downloads, character backgrounds, and a special section for parents and teachers. The website uses no text except in the parents area, and all functions and navigation on the site is designed for and tested on the target audience.

Repetition is a central learning element for the age of the target audience age group, and this forms the basis for the Picnic with Cake format. Children can watch episodes and learn about the emotions that constitute the essence of each story such as happiness, anger, jealousy, fear, vanity, love, prejudice, and desire. This makes Picnic with Cake an ideal conversation starter at home and in the classroom!

Little Fox iPad game:
The goal of the game is to bake a cake with Little Fox. To do this you have to play three different
games and win back ingredients from Lizard and Frog. The iPad game is specially developed for young children and uses no text.

Produced by Submarine in co-production with Walking the Dog, Tomavistas, KRO, Ketnet and Televisió de Catalunya

This production was made with the financial support of:

The Dutch Cultural Media Fund, the VAF/Flanders Film and Media Funds, uFilm, uFund, Tax Shelter of the federal (government of Belgium and Tax Shelter investors, Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries, the Media Program of the European Union and Lannoo Publishers

Picnic with Cake is produced by Submarine in co-production with Walking the Dog, Tomavistas, KRO, Ketnet and Televisió de Catalunya This production was made with the financial support of: The Dutch Cultural Media fund, the VAF/Flanders Film and Media Funds, uFilm, uFund, Tax Shelter of the federal government of Belgium and Tax Shelter investors, Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries, the Media Program of the European Union and Lannoo Publishers.

Picnic With Cake

Little Fox iPad game

Little Fox wants to bake a cake with you, but the ingredients were stolen! Help Little Fox win back the ingredients from the hands of bad guys Lizard and Frog. When you manage to get all the ingredients, bake a delicious cake with Little Fox. Download the App in DutchDownload the App in English

Little Fox iPad game: The goal of the game is to bake a cake with Little Fox. To do this you have to play three different games and win back ingredients from Lizard and Frog. The iPad game is specially developed for young children and uses no text. GameplayMain game – Bake a cake Collect ingredients by playing the three games. When you think you have enough ingredients, try to bake the cake. But beware, you must collect all the right ingredients otherwise your cake will fail…. and the ingredients you used will be lost. The more you play the games to collect the special ingredients, the prettier your cake will turn out!Game 1 – Slingamatic 2000 Try to swing Lizard and Frog into the air by setting off the Slingamatic 2000 machine. Don’t think it will be an easy task, it gets more difficult each time…Game 2 – Chasing with birds Little Fox flies in the sky by hanging on to birds and balloons. He is chasing Lizard and Frog. If you manage to get Little Fox close enough to Lizard and Frog you win ingredients to bake the cake. Try not to clash against the trees and other objects that get in your way, otherwise you will have to start over.Game 3 – Waterballoon machine Pelt Lizard and Frog with water balloons that you fire with a special waterballoon machine. Aim well and do your best to hit them! If you succeed you win your ingredients.Extra’s When you have succeeded in baking a cake with Little Fox, you can take a picture of yourself with Little Fox and the cake that you made. The pictures will be automatically saved in your iPad library! Also in the iPad game is a special cake recipe consisting of drawings, so children can easily follow at home.

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Picnic With Cake

a children’s story world

Mr. and Mrs. Dog have baked two delicious cakes for a picnic with all their animal friends.
But once they arrive at the picnic spot…
The cakes are missing!

Picnic with Cake website:
The heart of the website is an interactive story world where children can join the animals enjoying the Picnic with Cake. While watching the story, they can jump between characters and switch perspectives. Children can look through the eyes of the funny rats when they are accused for stealing the cake and switch halfway to the perspective of the frog to see how he steals the cakes in the mean time. Beyond the interactive videoplayer the website offers downloads, character backgrounds, and a special section for parents and teachers.

The website uses no text except in the parents area, and all functions and navigation on the site is designed for and tested on the target audience.

Website tech:
– HTML website can be embedded into other websites (in different sizes)
– all separate content elements of the website can be embedded separately
– the website has no text and is therefore very easy to localise
– the website makes use of basic Internet standards, HTML and Flash, and is very easy to integrate into any broadcaster website